{"id":110490,"date":"2026-05-01T11:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=110490"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:23:21","slug":"sri-lanka-u-19-players-held-over-alleged-secret-filming-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/sri-lanka-u-19-players-held-over-alleged-secret-filming-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka U-19 players held over alleged secret filming case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO: Two players from the Sri Lanka Under-19 cricket team have been arrested for allegedly filming women without consent at a hotel in the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Narahenpita<\/span><\/span> area of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-vs-india-t20-world-cup-2026-clash-begins-in-colombo-today\/\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Colombo<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"246\" data-end=\"440\">According to reports, the incident occurred while the team was staying at a hotel, where female guests lodged complaints that they were being secretly recorded using mobile phones while bathing.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"442\" data-end=\"632\">Police acted on the complaints and took the two players into custody. However, both were later released on personal bonds worth 500,000 Sri Lankan rupees.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"634\" data-end=\"739\">Authorities said an investigation is underway to determine whether the alleged videos were shared online.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"741\" data-end=\"859\">The accused were presented before a local court for a preliminary hearing, with the next hearing scheduled for May 25.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"861\" data-end=\"972\">So far, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Sri Lanka Cricket<\/span><\/span> has not announced any disciplinary action regarding the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO: Two players from the Sri Lanka Under-19 cricket team have been arrested for allegedly filming women without consent at a hotel in the Narahenpita area of Colombo. According to reports, the incident occurred while the team was staying at a hotel, where female guests lodged complaints that they were being secretly recorded using mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":110491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41301],"class_list":["post-110490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-sri-lanka-u-19-players"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110492,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110490\/revisions\/110492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}